Fufu (or foofoo, fufuo, foufou) is a staple food common in many countries in West Africa and Central Africa such as Ghana, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Cote D’Ivoire, Benin, Togo, Nigeria, both Congos, Cameroon, the Central African Republic and Gabon, and is also found in the Caribbean.
It is often made in the traditional Ghanaian, Nigerian, and Cuban method by mixing and pounding separate equal portions of cassava and green plantain(cooking banana) flour thoroughly with water. It is then adjusted to either increase or decrease the viscosity of the fufu depending on personal preferences. Other flours, such as semolina, maize flour, or mashed plantains may take the place of cassava flour. Fufu is often served with groundnut soup, palm nut soup, abunuabunu, or light soup.
The traditional method is to boil starchy food crops like cassava, yams or plantains and cocoyams and then pound them into a dough-like consistency. Fufu is eaten with the fingers, and a small ball of it can be dipped into an accompanying soup or sauce.
This West African dish grabbed the attention of netizens when a food blogger posted a small video of enjoying soft, mushy fufu with spicy chicken Egusi. The way of eating it is much like a classic Indian style of eating with clean hands. The video garnered massive views and over 1.6 lakh posts with the hashtag Fufu! The eye-grabbing dish is certainly captivating, which has also led to a Fufu challenge.
In the recent Internet world, it has become extremely easy for everyone around to access anything within a fluke of a second and making viral of something, which led this interesting, tempting dish to spread all over and now anyone can make it in their kitchen and enjoy this African dish. The distance between any country kind of dissolved with the emergence of social media and the popularity of any creative and innovative thing is spreading with the beam.
Text by: Adrita Roy, IBTN9
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